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[2025 Hong Kong Attraction] Travel Guide for Hong Kong Museum of History (Updated Feb)

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The museum takes the local natural history and human history as the main line, and has a variety of exhibits, mainly showing the local development process. Introduction to the exhibition hall The museum has 1 underground floor, 2 above ground floors and a mezzanine. The permanent exhibition halls are mainly concentrated on the second floor and the first basement floor. The first floor has special exhibition halls and souvenir shops. The main basement floor displays the local natural environment, the development process from prehistory to the Qing Dynasty, and rich folk exhibits. The second floor displays the history of changes from a small fishing village to a metropolis. There are many small screening rooms in the museum, and video materials related to each exhibition area are played on a rolling basis. Exhibits Overview The collections in the museum are divided into four categories: archaeology, local history, folklore history and natural history. Among the archaeological collections, there are the famous Father Mai Zhaohan Collection and the Father Fendley Collection. The local history collections are dominated by historical pictures, and the earlier pictures were taken in the 1860s; in the folk history collections, there are traditional Chinese ones. Models of fishing boats, fishing equipment, traditional farm implements and daily utensils; natural history collections are mainly rocks and minerals from around the world, as well as common butterfly and mollusk shells.

Address:
100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (next to the Hong Kong Science Museum)
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-4 hours
Phone:
+852 2724 9042
Ticket Price
Free entry
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